Finality

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This paper considers the issue of finality and whether heroic projects to vanquish affliction transcend offense and yield finality, using the writings of Simone Weil and the section of "The Brothers Karamazov" known as "The Grand Inquisitor" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The paper suggests that the issue of "why" cannot be answered and that the question is thus meaningless and will never be answered. It argues that finality is achieved through faith and acceptance and will only be achievable in the next world.

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"One of the issues addressed by religious thought is the meaning of affliction, the means that can be taken to eliminate or mitigate it, with the possibility of finality as a result. Simone Weil examines these issues in her essays and notes the problem when she writes, "There can be no answer to the `Why?' of the afflicted, because the world is necessity and not purpose. If there were finality in the world, the place of the good would not be in the other world. Whenever we look for final causes in this world it refuses them. But to know that it refuses, one has to ask" (90). The oft-asked question as to why god allows suffering can thus not be answered, for things are as they must be, with no other answer possible."

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